[gnu.utils.bug] Patch for ar.c

cheeks@CENTRAL.SUN.COM (08/15/89)

Following is a patch to ar.c which was necessary to avoid a subsequent
null pointer reference (on an HP9000s300 under hpux 6.[25] - probably others).

*** ar.c.orig	Sun Mar  5 16:53:47 1989
--- ar.c	Thu Aug 10 11:15:44 1989
***************
*** 800,805 ****
--- 800,806 ----
        else
  	{
  	  struct mapelt *this = (struct mapelt *) xmalloc (sizeof (struct mapelt));
+ 	  bzero (this, sizeof (struct mapelt));
  
  	  this->info.name = "__.SYMDEF";
  	  this->info.offset = 0;


Mark Costlow
..texsun!xochitl!cheeks